Hapur: In a heart-wrenching incident, a 22-year-old man drowned in the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur, while immersing the ashes of his deceased father in the holy river as part of last rites. The Hapur police confirmed the incident on Thursday, saying that a rescue operation was launched to trace the victim.
According to a senior police official, the incident took place at Brajghat on Wednesday evening when Arjun Vaid had reached there for the last rites of his father Babli Vaid (55) who passed away a day earlier due to cardiac arrest.
"After performing the last rites, when Arjun was immersing his father's ashes in the Ganga, he drowned in the flow of water. The divers present on the spot tried to rescue him but he died," Circle Officer (Garh Mukteshwar) Ashutosh Shivam said.
Their family lives in the Pilakhuwa area of the district.
Further legal proceedings have been initiated in the matter.
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